OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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December 11, 2025
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Ethiopia arrests 'indecently' dressed TikTok stars after awards ceremony
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December 11, 2025
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Nick Clegg joins London-based VC firm Hiro Capital as a general partner, and Yann LeCun joins the firm as an adviser; sources: Hiro looks to raise a €500M+ fund (Financial Times)
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December 10, 2025
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EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
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December 10, 2025
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These young Australians grew up with social media - what do they think of the ban?
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December 09, 2025
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Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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December 09, 2025
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Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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December 08, 2025
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An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
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December 07, 2025
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Trump criticises Democrat he pardoned over not switching political parties
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December 07, 2025
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Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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December 07, 2025
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Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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December 07, 2025
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North American leaders take stage together for the first time
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December 06, 2025
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Boycotts and arguments - can the Eurovision Song Contest survive its biggest crisis?
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December 05, 2025
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Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company (Wall Street Journal)
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December 05, 2025
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5
Which European countries have mandatory or voluntary military service
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December 05, 2025
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Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
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December 04, 2025
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Israel says Palestinian groups returned body of Thai hostage held in Gaza
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December 04, 2025
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Sources: Stripe is paying ~$1B to acquire Metronome, and the deal is expected to be predominantly cash; PitchBook: Metronome was valued at $470M in February (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
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December 03, 2025
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Stop wasting the world's time, Ukraine tells Putin after US talks in Moscow
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December 03, 2025
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OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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December 03, 2025
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Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal)
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December 02, 2025
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What is Honduras ex-president accused of and why has Trump pardoned him?
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December 02, 2025
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SITE NEWS: How to contact Techmeme about news
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December 01, 2025
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Dozens missing as deadly landslide hits two boats in Peru
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December 01, 2025
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Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
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December 01, 2025
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